The Daily Howler - 10/26/05

TRANSITIONS ARE HARD! An e-mailer challenges “no harm, no foul.” With lightning speed, we answer: // link // print // previous // next //

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2005

TRANSITIONS ARE HARD: We aren’t going to post today, except for one brief e-mail Q-and-A. A reader asked a good question about the notion of “no harm, no foul” in the Plame “outing” matter (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 10/25/05). Here was his statement: E-MAIL: “No harm, no foul?”

If I throw a cinderblock off an overpass, just because no one got hurt I should be let off the hook?

And that one's easy to determine harm.